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The creator of upcoming life sim Inzoi says he was "recklessly brave to even think about creating a game of this scale" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey another kid who grew up wc3 modding! I did a ton of that too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I made a tower defense map in the Starcraft map editor when I was a kid , but it was based off of anti air rather than anti ground like the other TD maps at the time. I got it working pretty damn well (at least IMO) but I didn't have internet at the time and that was on my dads work laptop so it sadly got lost.

I don't think I could recreate that now if I tried, crazy what you can do as a bored kid with too much time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's cool! I made tons of stuff but most of it never got finished or released cause I just kept starting the next thing. Probably the wildest thing I ever made was a prototype for a sidescrolling platformer in wc3. It had keyboard movement and ability usage, jumping, a heart counter in the top left, enemies, powerups... It was kind of janky but it worked surprisingly well considering what I built it in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

o the memories lol.

<3 both of u. I was Pixie_Tails on US east and west and in one of the big mapmaking guilds on east. I look back and think wc3 was the mentally healthiest part of my childhood. My most fun thing was a game like dota but with a huge natural map and a minute at the start for everyone to choose their castle locations. Like you could choose to be on a hill, along a river, etc. Then there were diff biomes to choose your hero from and the hero choices spawned like pkmn and there were rares. and choosing base unit types. then it became like dota where units spawned at castles and attackmoved to other castles. Was epic.

My weakness was unit and ability balancing since it didnt interest me so i never did it.

anyway, we thought up and made these as kids. i think that's the coolest thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's so cool sounding too! I made so many half baked ideas honestly. Tower defenses, single player campaigns (way too ambitious ones), and so many more. It really taught me a lot about proper game dev honestly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

God damn, that sounds awesome! Those map editors were seriously impressive for their time, so many cool things you could do with them. I also liked making "campaign" maps but with hero units and harder AI (SC base ai was too easy but you could set it to be harder through the map editor) or those "maze" maps where you have to keep the units you start out with alive through a bunch of different encounters.

Ahh good times!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

For real. I had a project to make two full since player campaigns and it was waaaaaay too ambitious. I've always been hopelessly ambitious with game dev stuff and I still am honestly 😅

So fun to hear everyone chiming about doing this back then.